I really fucking hate Windows. Can someone try and help me?

[Drunken Irishman]

I've been using Chrome because my computer is a piece of shit and every other browser is slower than Bob Dole getting an erection. Well today I go to load it and nothing. Click the icon and I get a brief flash like it's going to load the browser and nothing starts up. It isn't there, as it vanishes from the task manager like it's been closed. So I'm back to using IE, which I hate.

WTF is wrong? I am so close to picking up my fucking computer and chucking this bastard against the goddamn mother fucking wall.

[NJmaverick]

1. I would try to reinstall it

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Did it, nothing.

[NJmaverick]

9. Then all I can offer is this

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list

[Ava]

2. get a mac

:hide:

[no name no slogan]

3. What she said

or barring that, go download Opera (www.Opera.com). Small footprint, very fast, and will not bogart your memory like other browsers.

[Ava]

6. opera is what i'm using right now

it is by far my favorite browser, and i've used just about all of them.

[no name no slogan]

12. It's one of mine, too

I originally started using it around version 3, when you still had to pay for a license. It was ahead of its time then, and is still pretty awesome. :thumbsup:

[Drunken Irishman]

13. DL'd it, hate it.

Next.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Ok, good, you can both go halfies on my new MAC.

Let me know when you're ready for me to tell you where to send it.

And I want my Google!

[Drunken Irishman]

10. So Opera doesn't have the little incognito tab?

I want that! :(

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Give me the money and I'll do it.

[Ava]

8. i had to save up for about a year before i could get mine

i do heavy video editing though, so i really needed it. windows is horrible for video editing.

also my windows computer got struck by lightning. i think it was god telling me to fork over the money for a mac. :P

[no name no slogan]

11. I had to sell a lot of bathtub moonshine, but it was worth it

Macs are almost as cheap as PCs now. And the extra couple hundred you spend are well worth the lack of hassle. I got my first MacBook two years ago, after using PCs since the early 90s (I used Macs and PCs from the mid-80s before that), and it was worth it.

[av8rdave]

15. A Mac is the best answer

However, it's an expensive solution, and therefore may not be a viable one for the time being. (I got one a couple of weeks ago, and LOVE it).

Absent that, try downloading Firefox. In most cases, I've found it to be the best browser. Most stable, fastest, and as far as I can tell, way more secure than IE.

After way too many years of wanting to throw computers out the window, I've discovered that Microsoft avoidance wherever possible is a good policy.

[HopeHoops]

14. Use Firefox

[Rob H.]

16. ^ What HopeHoops said

I won't use anything else.

[whistler162]

17. What kind of PC do you have..

age speed memory etc.?

[mwooldri]

18. Excellent question - we need an answer!

An often overlooked easy hardware fix is a memory increase. XP just about works on 256mb. Double it to 512 and it works OK. Go to 1GB and it's quite nice. But then your machine might not be able to be increased further depending on how old it is (I had a P3 notebook... processor was maxed at 900Mhz and memory maxed at 256Mb. It was certified for Windows 2000... and it ran XP - just).

However sometimes you can try out something new. If you have the spare diskspace, try out a Linux distribution. For newbies I'd go with Ubuntu, or maybe Mandriva. If your computer is way underpowered by modern standards then maybe xubuntu (an Ubuntu variant) could work but it's not anywhere near as fancy as Ubuntu or Kubuntu is. The great thing about Ubuntu, Mandriva and other Linux distributions is that many of them are free, as in beer - your investment is your time in learning the new operating system and how things work, and getting it installed without trashing your XP set up.

Mark.

[pokerfan]

19. .

[The Straight Story]

20. Look for a virus and/or spyware

can slow system to a crawl and screw up all sorts of things.

[NNadir]

21. You're drunk.

Being Irish has nothing to do with it.

Lots of Irish people have no problems with their computers.

[Jamastiene]

22. No, no, no, no. Stop. Wait. You are doing it wrong.

Take it from an experienced Windows user:

Pick up the fucking computer and DROP KICK the bastard against the goddamn mother fucking wall.

Now, THAT is the way you use a Windows machine.

Re-install Chrome. That should solve your problem.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. I don't know what I did, but it's working now.

I clicked the icon like ten times and it finally booted up.

WTF?

[TreasonousBastard]

24. Chrome sucks ass and is the slowest...

browser I have-- others are Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE. Tried a few others so useless I completely forgot about them.

It usually does load fast, though, and it doesn't do much so I use it when a page doesn't open at all in Opera due to some horrendous coding. I use Firefox or IE on those scumbag sites like TurboTax that haven't figured out Opera is secure and won't let me use it even though I have it identify itself as IE. I don't know how secure Chrome is, so I'm never using it on shopping or scary sites like warez or porn.


(IE, whatever version I have now, is surprisingly fast at loading pages, and even gives Opera a run for its money now and then.)

[SKKY]

25. Sometimes, Windows will appear to exit a program, but the process doesn't stop...

...this happens quite frequently for me with IE6 at work. If you click on it, and it does nothing, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and bring up Windows Task Manager. Under the processes tab, look for the actual process (In my case with IE6, it says IEexplore.exe,with Chrome it might be chrome.exe or googlechrome.exe. It should stand out to you easily.), and stop it. Then it should work for you when you try to restart it. I also see this quite a bit with Outlook. Rebooting the computer will do the same thing.

[blogslut]

26. Install this program

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

Then use it.

If that doesn't help you, get back to me.